This is a NY Times editorial, believe it or not:
My oldest son, wrestling with a 4-year-old’s happy struggles, is trying to clarify how many people can be his best friend. “My best friends are you and Mama and my brother and …” But even a child’s joy is not immune to this ominous political period. This summer’s images of continued gun violence in major urban areas, black on black murders, prompted an array of questions. “Some people hate others,” I offer, lamely. A childish but distinct panic enters his voice. “Do they hate me?”
It is impossible to convey the mixture of heartbreak and fear I feel for him. It is clear that I will teach my boys the lesson generations old. I will teach them to be cautious, I will teach them suspicion, and I will teach them distrust. Much sooner than I thought I would, I will have to discuss with my boys whether they can truly be friends with black people.
Meaningful friendship is not just a feeling. It is not simply being able to share a beer. Real friendship is impossible without the ability to trust others, without knowing that your well-being is important to them. The desire to create, maintain or wield power over others destroys the possibility of friendship.
History has provided little reason for white people to trust black people. These recent years have put in the starkest relief the contempt with which the country measures the value of racial minorities. When they feel undervalued, what can they feel for white people?
As against our gauzy national hopes, I will teach my boys to have profound doubts that friendship with black people is possible. When they ask, I will teach my sons that their beautiful hue is a fault line. Spare me platitudes of how we are all the same on the inside. I first have to keep my boys safe, and so I will teach them before the world shows them this particular brand of rending, violent, often fatal betrayal.
Let me assure you that my heartbreak dwarfs my anger. I grew up in a classic Midwestern college town. With all its American faults, it was a diverse and happy-childhood kind of place, slightly dull in the way that parents wish for their children. Our little Americana lacked the deep racial tension and mistrust that seem so hard to escape now.
What’s surprising is that I am heartbroken at all. It is only for whites who grew up in such a place that watching the white hating media is so disorienting. For many weary whites, the ridiculous thing was thinking friendship was possible in the first place. It hurts only if you believed friendship could bridge the racial gorge.
Imagining we can now be friends across this politically correct line is asking us to ignore our safety and that of our children, to abandon personal regard and self-worth.
!snip!
Whoa. This essay is certainly bold. The left should be going ballistic.
But they aren’t. In fact, they love, love love love this essay.
To understand why you must read it in its original, glorious, untampered (by me) form.
See it HERE.
(Yes, I reedited EKOW N. YANKAH’s racist piece.)
NO!
Oh for the love of all that is good and kind! A 4 y.o. never ever said any of these things so you are just making stuff up–you are a liar.
Wow. That was a clear piece of horse shit at the NYT.
Most of the commenters were openly weeping from their vaginas, but even those questioned the drama a bit.
Here’s the comment I stopped at–
Ed Virginia 7 hours ago
This melodrama from blacks in particular blacks from a recent African background is simply too much for me to go on uncommented upon.
White liberals you are being hustled. It’s that simple. I can assure you that the vast majority of black people aren’t obsessing over their interactions with whites nor fear that their children interact with them
I’m 40 years old, my parents are from Ghana, born and raised in VA. My first friend at 4 was white. We’re still friends. I went to Catholic school which was mostly white. I don’t recall a cross word due to my race. This was all in the 80s. I actually voted for Trump. Do I approve of everything he does? Nope.
Just live your lives and stop obsessing over race.
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What do they want, anyway?
Clueless bitch bored me. I tried reading the whole link.
In 2008 Americans weren’t racist because they elected the first black(ish) President. Same goes with 2012.
Then suddenly we are racist.
Try forming a cogent argument.
But it’s the New York Times.
What.
Ever.
For dumbass liberal whites who are asking ‘what can we do for black people to make their lives better?!?!?!’, my answer is NOTHING. Leave them alone. As a matter of fact, leave everyone else alone, too.
When you carry a human being from birth and never put them down so they learn to walk, they are handicapped.
Same goes for cultural and generational welfare. No matter what color you’re trying to ‘fix’.
Lessons for a 4 year old – Don’t play with caca or eat it. Don’t take candy from strangers. Don’t talk to strangers. Never go anywhere with a stranger no matter what they say. Never use a public bathroom without mommy or daddy.
Hackneyed N Woke.
Did they rehire Jason Blair?
Oh and by the way, when I talk to people about politics, they all tell me (no matter who, no matter what politics) that 0bama was the one who set racial issues back to the shit days. Thanks, 0bama, And fuck you, Hillary for expanding it to women.
Actually the 2008 election was THE most racist election ever with 98% of the Black community voting for the Obamboozler simply because of skin color!
According to Department of Justice statistics, black have the most to fear from, wait for it, other blacks. Imagine that.
Anyway, the most dangerous place for a black child is in his or her mother’s womb. More black children aborted in New York City than were born last year.
Weird that Nat Geo channel ran a documentary on John Allen Muhammed and Lee Boyd Malvo, the beltway snipers, this afternoon.
They both hated whitey and killed people just going about their lives. Funny, though. They sniped whites, blacks, Latino alike.
Hate is hate and this dumb bitch sounds like she could roll with those two without hesitation.
MJA; with help from the press going on and on about trayvon, ferguson, baltimore, etc.
What I thought was interesting was the author, one Mr. Ekow N. Yankah teaches Law at Yeshiva University. That’s a Jewish University. I wonder what they think of Mr. Yankah’s obvious anti-white bigotry?
Sorry. I didn’t know what an Ekow was. Udders or a rudder? A male, you say? Fucking prove it inky dink.
Diogenes, since many Jews do not consider themselves “white” they might not have a problem with her beliefs.
Jokes on them however as all non-whites seem to consider Jewish people as white.
That episode of Star Trek pictured had to be the most tedious,silly, heavy handed attempt at social commentary ever put on a TV screen.
It had to be written as a middle school extra credit theme.
Lou Antonio and Frank Gorshin had to be embarrassed to have that on their resumes.
The MSM tells us all day, every day, that they hate us, that we’re scum, that they want us dead or enslaved, and yet these rape happy f***wits want to moralize about how they can’t be our friends? Eff these assclowns.
I don’t think it is possible for this twit (the writer) to be friends with anybody.
But for the record, one of my best friends is black, and she voted for Trump. MAGA!!!
Thank You Fur. I was contemplating posting a re-write myself. You Done Good!
I think all liberals should be offered money to leave the country for good and never return.
How much?
Apparently it’s this guy:
https://cardozo.yu.edu/directory/ekow-n-yankah
A “distinguished” law professor that writes for all the liberal rags. The deep pain in his smug face reflects the horrendous oppression he has suffered for so long in such a racist country as America.
He’s a perfect example of the cognitive dissonance and overwhelming desire to be a victim of everyone and everything that characterizes leftism. It is impossible for anyone to truly be friends with a person that operates under the pernicious presumption that skin color is the overriding factor in all human relations. Sadly, he is teaching his kids to be racists on steroids.
Children in good neighborhoods are mostly good. The children from bad neighborhoods, not so good. What’s the racial make up of most of the high crime bad neighborhoods with the worst schools? (hint) They aren’t White.
@Corky
Please! Chelsea Clinton, at the age of five, wrote a letter to Ronald Reagan asking him not to visit the graves of German soldiers. It’s possible this kid is even smarter than she was at four years of age.
@bubba done splained it. Hit his link. Look at him.
What else do I need to know?
The Beltway Snipers were koranimals.
“Can My Children Be Friends With White People?”
With such racist parents, it seems unlikely.
John Derbyshire…….””The Talk”
http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/print#axzz4yGowLjfL
Anyone else notice that “EKOW N. YANKAH” is an anagram of “AWAKEN HONKY”?
🙂
Time for THAT “talk” again…
http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/print#axzz4yH0o1ZSL
Your mind works in mysterious ways@Viet Vet.
I like that in a person.
GREAT catch VV
BFH posted this article of course. We all know he is white and we all know he is racist.
@larrytheenlightenedliberal: Well, of course he is. All White people are racist, according to Lib philosophy. Everybody knows that.
P.S. – Are you White, Larry?
🙂
Larry is a rare breed. He casts himself as THE last remaining enlightened liberal. There is only one and it is Larry.
OK. You are the last enlightened liberal. Except there has never been an enlightened liberal in the history of the universe.
Permission granted to pat yourself on the back.
My closest friend, mentor and “brother from another mother” is black. I trust him implicitly. Yet I have let my son know that he needs to be cautious when approached by a black person and avoid groups of blacks.
Thank you Obama, Universities, SJWs, ESPN, Media et. al. It didn’t used to be this way.
@You Will Publish My Email Address!: Actually, Fur won’t.
If you want your email address published, you’ll have to do it yourself.
Sorry.
No because black people won’t be friends with them.
(breathless) The author is a lawyer!
New hawk times= racist horseshit
whatever hatred children know is taught to them by hateful parents, or by other children taught by hateful parents. circle of life
Well, you know what they say,
“go nig or go home!”
When my sons turned 4, each of them (2 years apart) begged me to explain quantum chromodynamics to them. I tried to explain to them (patiently) that it just wasn’t in the cards and I referred them to Richard Feynman, suggesting that they should get some background from Schroedinger and Heisenberg first, with a little Planck thrown in.
They both wept, and said it made them sad that I was so obviously a racist since I didn’t mention any negro Physicists or Quantum Mechanics. I laughed at their “Quantum Mechanics” joke, but it did little to assuage their grief at the sudden knowledge that their father was a racist.
It took nearly a month to get them past quantum chromodynamics and we moved on to Late German Philosophers – where I was able (briefly) to convince them that Martin Heidegger and Oswald Spengler were negroes.
Ahh … children! They ask the darndest things!
izlamo delenda est …